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First Midterm Exam Review

New York Times Editorial, Jan 13, 1920


 Robert Goddard said a rocket could
travel through empty space. The
Times replied:
“[Professor Goddard] does not know of
the relation of action to reaction and the
need to have something better than a
vacuum against which to react.
…[Goddard] seems to lack the knowledge
ladled out daily in high schools.”
 They printed a retraction on July 17,
1969, the day after the launch of
Apollo 11.

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Authority, Intuition, Sensory Data, Reason

 Identify the source of knowledge for


each of the following statements:
 Your teacher says: “If you don’t study for
the exam, you will fail it.”
 You have failed all exams you did not study
for. Therefore studying is a good way to
prepare.
 You have studied hard for the exam and
know you will pass it.

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A person that is afraid to get out of bed because
gravity might have quit during the night has no
faith in which self-evident truth?

A. Existence
B. Time symmetry
C. Position symmetry
D. Occam’s razor
E. Non-contradiction

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Which of the following is held together
by the electromagnetic interaction?
A. Galaxies
B. Atomic Nuclei
C. The Solar System
D. Rocks
E. Engaged couples

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A Cooper mini and a semi truck and trailer collide
head on. Which of the following is true?
A. They exert equal forces on each
other but the Cooper accelerates
the most.
B. The truck exerts a greater force
on the Cooper than the Cooper
does on the truck causing it to
accelerate most.
C. The acceleration of both of them
is the same. The force of the
Cooper on the truck is greater
than the force of the truck on the
Cooper for this to happen.
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 You are in a rotating cylinder wearing
roller skates. What are the forces on you?
 What are the forces, velocities, and
accelerations on you as you ride an
elevator?

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 You are sitting in a chair. What is the
reaction force to gravity pulling on you
that is required by Newton’s 3rd law?
 What can you say about an object’s
weight and mass as it moves farther from
the earth?
 What are the forces on a car passenger as
it turns a corner at a constant speed?

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You have two charged balls one meter apart. How does
the force on either ball change if you bring them closer
together so that they are now 0.5 m apart?

A. It gets stronger
B. It gets weaker
C. Trick question! It didn’t
say if the charges are the
same or different!

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You have two charged objects one meter apart. How
does their potential energy change if you decrease the
separation by half to 0.5m?

A. It increases
B. It decreases
C. Trick question! It didn’t say if
the charges are the same or
different!

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Which of the following is not always conserved?
A. Heat energy
B. Linear momentum
C. Angular momentum
D. Total charge
E. Mass and energy

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 What are the two postulates of the
special theory of relativity?
 What are five predictions from this
theory?
 What is the idea behind inertial
frames of reference?

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 Analyze this situation (four balls tossed or
dropped off a cliff)

A B C D

What are the forces, accelerations,


velocities, and impact times of each?
(Assume no air friction)

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 Explain the weightlessness of an astronaut
orbiting the earth. Where does gravity
really go to zero?
 What is Archimedes’ Principle? How does
it help us understand how both solid wood
and hollow glass spheres can float?
 Trace the energy transformations in a
javelin toss.

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